[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Kettering U.D.C.

  • Kettering (England). Urban District Council. n 2006184713.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Kettering U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Milk Supplies Houses unfit forHabitation Water Supply Sewage Works. No case of Infectious Disease has been traced to the Milk Supplies, although in every case enquiries have been instituted and carried out in this matter. No dwelling-house has during the past year been condemned as unfit for habitation. Several new Mains have been laid during the past year. The principal one being a separate I2in. Pumping Main, 2000 yards in length, to deliver direct into the service reservoir at Clover Hill, without supplying the town, en route. This enables the pumps at Cransley to run 2 hours longer daily. Another important benefit from this new Main in the greatly improved means it provides for coping with fires in the town, as a con- stant supply can now be pumped in, while the distributing Mains are under high pressure. A further improvement has been the dividing the town into smaller districts for Water Supply, by the insertion of a number of Valves in the Mains, so that when it is necessary to repair Mains, smaller areas will be affected by the shutting off the Water. Good progress has been made in the construction of the new Reservoir near Thorpe Malsor. The embankment has now reached the height of nearly 25 feet, the culvert completed, and the various other works in connection are well in hand. The necess- ary diversion of the Loddington Sewage has been completed, and the 15-inch Delivery Main from the Thorpe Malsor Reservoir to the Cransley Reservoir, about 2 miles in length, is also finished. The whole of the remaining osiers at the Sewage Disposal Works have been removed, the commencement of which was reported in the last Annual Report, and additional subsoil Drains laid over the area. The ground has been thoroughly cleaned, and new Grips formed, and the Sewage effluent which has been fairly good throughout the year, will, no doubt, be further improved. The Filters have worked continuously throughout the year, and done their work well; they have now been working for six years.